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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, John Clarke wrote: > is there a website forum for this list ? > Just wondered if there is, where is it? > if there isn't - is there a reason why not ? > seems like the list would lend itself to that nicely... Forums are the work of the devil for those who can't type nor use a decent email program. Sorry to be blunt, but I hate forums and only use them when I'm absolutely forced into it. I have the means to sort, search, file and otherwise handle email using my preferred platforms - forums are slow, clunky, bloaty and otherwise unwieldy compared to my super fast, lightweight and slick email system. I used to run many mailing lists - and fortunately, a few still remain. I watched them be taken over by forums and the overall quality of postings dropped dramatically. Rather than one of 2 specialist mailing lists (Scuba related - another passion of mine), now there are dozes of forums and it's impossible to track all of them. One, I even host a dedicated server for and I'm utterly gob-smacked at the bandwidth it uses - especially on the incoming side - punters are sitting there hitting reload, reload, reload, reload, Ooh, a posting, best post a 2-line reply... reload, reload, reload, reload, .. etc. Lifes too short. Email comes to me, I can deal with it when I need to, I have a decent editor, not some bloated javascript POS, etc. blah, blah. Roll on the revolution... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html